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City life is seen, conventionally, as stressful. We suburbanites often idealise rural life.
Birds singing, paddocks bursting with grain, scenic hills, maybe a valley or two . . . Many people who do live “in the bush” do enjoy it. The ease of car travel, for example, means that they can easily get up to metro shopping malls or high streets dripping with cappuccino cafes. There is stress, however, beyond the suburban boundaries. On a recent visit to the Western Australian Wheatbelt I heard a farmer’s candid lament on how profits had not kept pace with profits. “We get the same price for what we produce, same as a decade ago, but today we have to pay much more for power, fertiliser and fuel.” |
